Quotes about Justice

A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety.

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.

When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.

The surest law in the world is the Law of Compensation. Its Justice works continually. If you do a Service you get back a Service. If you do Nothing you get back Nothing. Mere existence is not Living. Into your twenty-four hours put Work and Play and Rest, but at no time be a Bystander.

To fear or to worry is as sinful as to curse, for how can one fear or worry if he intrinsically believes in the Eternal justice, the Omnipotent Good, the Boundless Love? To fear, to worry, to doubt, is to deny, to dis-believe.

Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh shall from the flesh reap corruption. . . . Galatians 6:7—

Church is a gathering of nobodies to worship the only real Somebody: Christ, our Head. The King of creation, raised from the dead, seated with the Father, Commander of heaven, exercising complete authority over all time and space, perfect in His justice, infinite in His mercy, holy in His perfection, the only perfect Somebody who died for nobodies like you and me.

God has never sat around biting his nails, wondering what Hitler and Pol Pot and Saddam Hussein were going to do.

Biblical justice is the equitable application of God's moral law in society.

All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in. [Conversation with Elizabeth Farnsworth, PBS NewsHour , March 9, 1998]

If you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.

If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.